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Dirt: Call for Papers: ASAL conference 2019 The 2019 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the Westerly Centre at The University of Western Australia in Perth from 2-5 July 2019. http://www.asal2019.com.au/ After 13 years, the annual ASAL Conference heads west again from 2-5 July 2019 and our theme is ‘Dirt’. The...
The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne. Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865): https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which aims to publish...
TEACHING AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE?: HELP KEEP AUST LIT UP TO DATE...
The Grattan Street Press The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne. Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865): https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which...
Unsettling Australia: International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent...
2018 Sri Lanka ASAL Tour: 12 November - 2 December 2018 Australia has had a close relationship with Sri Lanka since both were established as British colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. Ceylon was the nearest British colony to the Australian colonies, a source...
Call For Papers: Special issue: Tropical Gothic Submission deadline: 30 December 2018 The Gothic is undergoing a pronounced resurgence in academic and popular cultures. Propelled by fears associated with massive social transformations produced by globalization, the neoliberal order, networked technologies, post-truth and environmental uncertainty – tropes of ‘the...
Teaching Australian literature?: Help keep Aust Lit up to date AustLit collects information about the teaching of Australian literature texts at universities and tertiary institutions around Australia and internationally, and links to this information from the work and author records. At a glance, AustLit tells you: how, where,...
Event: Launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon 6pm for 6.30pm, Thursday 1 November 2018, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, GlebeYou are invited to the launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon. The book will be launched by Stephen Romei,...
